Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-01
THE COR0NET WINS
THE OCEAN YACHT RACE FROM NEW
YORK TO QUEENSTOWN.
The Passage Made in Less Than 10 Days
with Very Rough Weather-Scarcely
any Damage to the Yacht-the
Dauntless Expected To-day

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less. The Coronet passed the winning
point at 1874 under full press OF can
yass. the wind at that hour being west to
northwest and fresh. In passing the given
point. the victorious yacht fired five guns
and the time was al once given by Tue sec
retary and members of the Royal Cork
Yacht club who had been on the LOOKOUT
for her arrival The club then hoisted
the signal announcing the Coronets ar
rival, the various stations answering the
penant. The wind was blowing hard ana
the Coronet entered Cork Harbor IN
spanking style, with all sail set and hug
ging the western shore. The apparent
time in the passage is IA days, - hours, "a
minutes, 46 seconds and the actual time
computed on the Greenwich basis
IA DAYS, 10 hours, minutes, IA
seconds The whole number of nautl-
cal miles sailed is 2949. The longest
DAYS run is 29l.5 miles, made yesterday,
and the shortest 1873 miles made tues
day. March %. The average was from
go to $50 miles. The weather was I'M
commonly tempestuous, even for this
season of the year. No less than seven
heavy gales contrived to keep the sea III
foment for / days of the trip, and for two
days the weather was SO severe as TO
make the question of the yacht living
through them somewhat doubtful. She
behaved splendidly, however, in all sorts
of weather and proved herself one of the
staunchest, if not one of the fastest YES
sells of her type atloat. No accidents hap
nened to any of the sails, despite the great
risks they were compelled to run at times,
with the exception of three torn sails and
little broken tackle, everything on board
the boat was in as good shape when the
anchor was dropped off Queenstown as
when il was raised off Tompklnsvlle, 5. |.
II is Thought that a much quicker pas.
sape might have been made had Captain
Croshy carried more sail. On several uc-
casions when the wind was iight but the
Skv threatening he was very cautious and
his Judgment was contrOlled largely by
tho har1npter. which was much of the
time below 20, and seldom above 30, the
normal deighG in the latitude Ve,sed.
me cnu,.,r made WAS a little more north
ariV t69m was thought SAFE, but fortunate
" no ic.hergs or field ice were encOunt-
ared Yhe number of persons on board
the Coronet Was 70, Including IL sailors,
five officers steward, COOK, mess boy and
five guests The officers Were; Captain,
G. p Crosby: navigator, Y. b. c. Ander-
son mates, W. A. Whittier and Otto Pc
terson: boatswain, Augustus Berghom.
The advantage gained by the Cor0uet at
thp start increased the confidence OF those
on hoard the boat
II WAS the first time Capt. Crosby had
ever na,tic;p8tc,l in a Yacht race OF any
Sort lie freely admitted that he feared
Gait. Samuel. OF the Dauntless, with his
pn>t experience, would succeed in crossing
he starting line somewhat ahead How
needless these apprehensions were is al
rendv known Ills not too much TO saw
thatin his maruuvleing he displayed more
iu6ylnent and tact than is usually seen in
races near New York. After taking an.
CHOIR ON board at IL O'Clock en- the morn
ing of he start he beat about the bay off
the Ouj'5 Head surveying the water and
verifying the positions of buoys Z and 10
between which she must pass after the
proper signal had been made from the
indies luz. When the preparatory
Sir 1l W. given the Coronet was
makin.- ii reach up the bay with
her n,.td toward tie battery.
Crosby he'd he wheel and by his SIDE was
Cant Anderson. watch in hand, counting
he seconds seven minutes from the
ti,ne If the first signal Crosby ordered the
helm "hard alec TO bring the boats head
around, She was under 80 seconds in
STAYS and then fairly flew before the
strong nur.lherlv wind. AS 1t had been
ARRANGED that the starting signal would
he Given 10 minutes after the preparatory
signal it seemed proba BILE that the Coronet
would reach the line fully minute before
the time for the second signal when il
would I've necessary to go about again,
thus causing considerable loss of time
Crosby WAS equal to the emergency how
ever. for when he realized what was I'M
minent he spilled the wind out of the sails
by trimming fiat att, bringing the big
schooner almost to a standstill. When
the signal was finally given he
Maid out fine sheets fore and aft
ran IN me square sail forestay
sail ard topsails and in 30 seconds had the
Coronet across the line. The Dauntless
il will be remembered, was off Gowanus,
nearly a mile away. with her stern toward
tha indges' hoat Every possible stitch of
canyass was snreati on the Coronet as She
Snad tbrouDh me narroWs at the rate of |:
niles an hour. surrounded bv tuns
staamers and steam Yachts. Once o,
t,n;na ryben nnder the lee of hioh land il
scanned as though her opponent was cain
ino how LOST Drmnnd ranilv- but when the
w WIZ tlied the Sails arain she lett the
Dauntlcss further astern than at the
Sou
Tbe sllv was clear and the breeza which
had Veertd around to the northwest WA
treebenad When The excursion boat B'N
Rid%e Witch Was the only one to accom-